The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-02-01
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The Chinese New Years celebration came
to stand-still on Saturday night at 10
O'Clock at Hilo, to be renewed again by a
perfect bombardment at midnight Sunday,
but Madame Pele put in an appearance BY
earthquake before the midnight hour. and
frightened the Celestial so that he deferred
his bombardment till daylight of Monday.
heavy cloud of smoke-the heaviest ever
seen there-was resting over Mauna Loa all
day Sunday and Monday, January 23d and
24th.
On Tuesday morning, January 25th, the
sun shone with a lurid light, as if shining
through mass of smoke. One could look
at the sun during the morning hours with
the naked eye without difficulty so dense
was this cloud of smoke, and it had decided
effect IN lowering the temperature. the Their
mometer standing at 20 degrees.
No signs of volcanic fire are visible from
Hllo, owing to the fact that the whole noun
tain has been enveloped in smoke since
Saturday, January 22d.
heavy storm OF thunder, lightning and
rain visited Hilo on Tuesday afternoon,
January 18th. No damage is reported,
though the lightning is supposed to have
struck in the immediate..vicinity of Hilo.
Very heavy rain has been falling all night,
commencing Wednesday at sun set, at Hilo.
1t came down in torrents.
particulars which will be of interest to our
readers.
Huo, Jan. 81, 1887.
EDITOR GAZETT E:-Again has Mauna Loa,
true to her traditions, sent forth a stream of
lava TO overrun and spread over her sides a
fresh layer of rock. 1t is almost exactly six
years since the flow of Nov. 1880, and to
those who have studied the flows of this
mountain, 1t was expected about this time,
or else await further period of three years.
Ever since early III December last, there
has been a steady increase in the number
and heayiness of the earthquake shocks.
About the 18th of January, they had in
creased to about an average of three day
and on the 18th, 18th and 10th, shocks were
heavier and heavier, until on Saturday, the
10th, about midnight, came the heaviest
shock yet felt, The motion was long and
wavy from little west of south to the east
of north. That night the summit crater of
Mauna Loa blazed forth for a few hours and
disappeared, and not long after the heavens
we're lighted with a brilliant reflection from
the lava as it run down the Kau side of the
mountain. Since the first few nights of the
outbreak, but little reflection has been seen
from Hilo.
We were however greatly astonished when
on Sunday last the earth again became
Nervous, and when shock after shock came
Sabbath eve, each harder and more violent
than the last, Hlloans began to think that
the shake" of 1868 was again to be enacted
and numbers availed themselves of their
lanais IN order to be ready for the "next
one. In twenty minutes nine shocks were
felt, two of them being violent enough to
shake down dishes. stop clocks, upset stoves,
and set chandeliers to swinging. Tue one in
my dining-room had swing of fifteen
inches from the perpendicular, and for two
hours there were shocks heavy enough to
keep it swinging. The two mountains have
been covered with a dense pail of smoke up
to the present time, and no one here can say
but that another flow may be slowly vending
its way down this side the mountain. 1t is
most singular that, with the flow running
down the other side, we should have had
such a recurrence of violent earthquake
shocks. Last night was the first that I've
not felt shock since Saturday night.
The weather has been enough to breed
earthquakes. Stormy-rainy and heavy
thunder and tightening. l do not think the
end is yet, as the recurrence of the heavy
shocks early this week, go to show that either
the vent at present opened in Kau is too
small, or else that Kilauea is preparing to
follow Mauna Loa in an eruption, a thing
not at all improbable.
From party who we're camping above
the woods on Mauna Kea, hear that from
Monday morning to tuesday morning, the
earth there was in a continued state of vibra
ton, over twenty-five distinct shocks being
counted. They must have been very nearly
over the line of greatest displacement.
ID. II. HITCHCOCK.